| Subject: | Re: FW: George, Tell the Oregon Senate Committee not to weaken Colum |
| Date: | 08/31/2004 04:20 AM |
| From: | snjr |
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D0_01C48F69.619E2A30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Doug wrote: "Maybe I've got it all wrong but, if you "push an ever increasing population into a confined area" people might be more inclined to not drive?" Have you been to some of Europe's bigger cities? They have traffic and pollution issues as well. Until urban planners stop designing cities to accommodate cars, and design them to accommodate people, cities will not be great places to live. Cramming people into tighter spaces designed for cars is called New York City. "Call me un American but, there are lots of alternatives to sitting behind the steering wheel of your car." There is nothing un American about not driving your car. There is however something un American about telling other Americans what they can or cannot do with their own property in an attempt to appease a minority of people. ------=_NextPart_000_00D0_01C48F69.619E2A30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Doug wrote: "Maybe I've got it all wrong but, if you "push an ever increasing population into a confined area" people might be more inclined to not drive?"</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Have you been to some of Europe's bigger cities? They have traffic and pollution issues as well. Until urban planners stop designing cities to accommodate cars, and design them to accommodate people, cities will not be great places to live. Cramming people into tighter spaces designed for cars is called New York City.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>"Call me un American but, there are lots of alternatives to sitting behind the steering wheel of your car."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is nothing un American about not driving your car. There is however something un American about telling other Americans what they can or cannot do with their own property in an attempt to appease a minority of people.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00D0_01C48F69.619E2A30-- |
